BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 28, 2024
A major expansion is expected to create more profitable opportunities for a Maine tribe raising fresh brook trout in Aroostook County. This summer, Mi’kmaq Farms plans to break ground on a new 12,000-square-foot hatchery near their farm store on Presque Isle Road in Caribou, quadrupling the size of their current 3,000-square-foot hatchery. The new facility will include four 18,000-gallon tanks, and will more than double the capacity of the current hatchery’s two 16,000-gallon tanks, in which brook trout are raised from eggs to fully grown fish ready for consumption.